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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Source:
Chapter 6. Yoshida-Torajiro (1880), Page 174
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Book:
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Writer:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Genre:
Essays
Published:
1882
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